Academy Genius Commander

61 – What is War?(2)

“Certainly, there are cases where you lose strategically even if you consume a lot of enemies in battle. Can you really interpret it that way?”

“But it doesn’t seem like there’s anything wrong with what the lieutenant colonel said.”

“I think so too. When I think about it by substituting the theory that the professor said, I can clearly see the reason why the war broke out, which I did not understand while reading the thesis during my academy days.”

If the academy had lectured in this way, students would not have been able to understand it because their knowledge was still immature and they lacked an understanding of the principles that work in practice.

However, it is because they are elites who have passed through tremendous competition from the academy to the staff university.

Even with a very basic story I threw out, I felt that the teaching was worthwhile because I saw them discussing how to apply and understand it.

But instead of showing my heartfelt emotion, I stood at the podium and looked at them and said,

“Everyone pay attention. Now that the 10-minute break has passed, we will begin the next class.”

If, when class started an hour ago, you were more interested in the genius who was awarded the rank of baron at the age of 21 and promoted to lieutenant colonel, rather than interest in the new class.

Now, everyone is fully immersed in the class claiming the new theory.

As a teacher, I really liked this desirable appearance, so I even thought about settling down as a professor.

“Professor Bonn has about two hours left, so I will proceed with the class based on the battle that took place in Visochia. Everyone has read the rough report of this battle, right?”

This report is also classified as level 3, so Academy students cannot read it without permission, but the students here are the stars of the future.

Of course, in order to have the right to read and survive the competition, he would have seen all the details of this battle report.

“Today, then, I will give a good example of how the strategic gains gained from winning a battle can be negated by the enemy commander-in-chief’s willingness to fight. Everyone knows that when the commander-in-chief of Czechia, Nikolai, was defeated in battle, he fled to Visochia Castle without much regret, right?”

Then, as expected, all the students in the classroom raised their hands and replied that they had read it.

“good. Then we will begin the lecture in earnest. Because of the choice of Nikolai, the commander-in-chief of Czechoslovakia, our Reich Empire was in danger of not achieving any results on the Czechoslovak front. No, from a strategic point of view, I almost got into a draw, a two-way plan (both sides only lose money) where both sides lose money and withdraw. This is a good example of how powerful the commander-in-chief’s will to wage war can be.”

If you dig a little deeper into the scene situation, Nikolai is nothing more than a coward who ran away without thinking about winning until the end when he was in danger of being defeated by the subject of the commander-in-chief.

If that bastard’s operation was successful.

Oh, you’re going to talk about that in a lecture anyway, so don’t even think about it, damn it. Just thinking about it makes me feel like sh*t.

Nikolai, who will be failed with an F in the second year after entering medical school by rolling a pencil in the college entrance exam.

However, it can be a good example of what results can be created if a commander has the will to continue the war without giving up.

“When His Highness the Crown Prince pretended to be pushed back by Nikolai’s 50,000 troops, then charged back, and at the same time, when the 8th Division commanded by Major General Ludwig succeeded in a surprise attack on the enemy’s main force, more than 30% of the enemy’s troops were already dead or missing, almost reached extinction. It was like a unit that had almost lost its combat power, which was difficult to control itself, so the only option was to retreat.”

So, like a king in Joseon who abandoned his people faster than light and fled, Nikolai’s son, the commander-in-chief, abandoned his main base and fled.

In the normal case, since that damned captain had escaped, an orderly retreat would be impossible, so the allies would be able to suck the honey just by knocking them down.

“So, in a narrow sense, our Imperial Army inflicted enormous damage on the enemy, so we were in a situation where all we had to do was kill as many enemy soldiers as possible, which is the basis of the enemy’s ability to conduct battle. But if you look at it a little more broadly.”

Having said that, I drew a rough map of the site of the battlefield and the Visochian castle.

“Usually, annihilating the enemy means when 30% of the soldiers mobilized by the enemy are killed or seriously injured. If you expand the damage by conducting a chase, up to half of the soldiers will die or desert. Due to the nature of the battlefield, we inevitably miss the rest due to the limitations of our ability, so the soldiers of the enemy country who missed them go to the Visochian Castle where the commander-in-chief is located.”

Upon hearing that, the faces of the students slowly began to harden.

Because if only a man named Nikolai had induced us to lay a siege.

The army led by the crown prince fights in the plains and wins a great victory, but encounters a situation in which they have to start a siege.

No matter how trampled by the enemy and the morale fell to the ground, it is extremely difficult to capture a castle with a garrison of 25,000 with only 40,000 men.

In military science, when this situation arises, it is taught like this.

‘A siege requires at least three times as many troops. Besiege or give up. Otherwise, it will fall behind.’

This is a truth that has not changed since the creation of the Imperial Military Science textbook.

Then I roughly drew a map around the empire and continued the lecture.

“As you can see, the Empire has many adjoining enemies due to its geographic nature. These include the Francois Republic, Czechia, Switzerland, and the Kingdom of Warsaw. If the war was prolonged, they would have come in through a gap with a high probability. In their view, the longer the siege lasts, the weaker the empire is, so they will think that they have a higher chance of winning.”

It is true that our empire has the upper hand in national and military power when fighting against them one-on-one, but when it comes to a one-on-two battle, the frontline expands and supply problems make it difficult to maintain the upper hand.

In other words, there is a possibility of defeat, which means that we may end up like an empire after the death of the prime minister, who is said to have mixed blood and iron in our veins.

There’s no all-out war, so that won’t happen, but they get beaten up in a similar way…

“If two fronts arise and the worst happens for our empire, our territory may be taken away by other countries. It would have somehow prevented such a situation from happening, but the empire might have ended up negotiating with the enemy in Visoccia on less favorable terms, even with a landslide victory. In other words, in the way that only half of Visochia is ceded, not the entire region.”

In fact, if the Czech Republic’s duke had really high diplomatic capabilities, he would have made the appearance of declaring war by mobilizing two or three countries sharpening swords against us.

If that was the case, he might have had to run away after receiving a level of compensation that only made up for the real damage.

don’t even say that

Gradually, at this point, I should also praise His Highness, the crown prince.

If there is something received, it is the duty of a servant to return as much or more than that.

“But I noticed that when attacking the enemy’s main base, the garrison guarding the main base was somewhat less desperate. That was an indication that Nikolai had already abandoned his headquarters and fled. When I informed him of this fact, His Highness the Crown Prince did not ignore my message as a mere major. As a result, Nikolai was caught and died while running away, remaining a cowardly coward, and the Reich Empire was able to achieve an overwhelming victory.”

If Nikolai hadn’t been caught, everyone in the prince’s family, including His Majesty the Crown Prince, would have had a really big dick.

Of course, war has a kind of gamble-like element, so the one who loses loses everything.

Thinking that I could have lost it really chills my heart.

“Even though he is the commander-in-chief, since an individual’s will to wage war can drastically change the situation, we must always do our best to break the enemy’s will to fight. Then, this will end today’s class, so if you want to know other ways to reduce the enemy’s ability to wage war, continue taking my class.”

When I finished speaking, the major who looked like the eldest in the class stood up and saluted, ending my first class completely.

I heard a lot of students gathered together and muttered in my ears.

“Take out the map, let’s analyze it again.”

“After all, today is the day to change course registration, so you don’t have to go to the next class.”

“There is Lieutenant Laura, who served as the professor’s adjutant over there, so let’s bring her and listen to her story.”

I heard that even in Korea, guys who are greedy for sexuality review during break time after class, so it’s the same at Staff College.

Thinking so, I left.